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I am writing a perl program to remove certain servlet tags from a web.xml file. One attempt (see listing) seems to work well except that comments are not preserved.

The attempt below preserves comments but mangles the XML prolog. What can I do to overcome this?

------------------ Perl Code ----------------
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use XML::Twig;
                                                                    
  my $twig= new XML::Twig(TwigRoots    => { servlet => 1 },
                          TwigHandlers => { servlet => \&servletTag}, 
+                 
                          TwigPrintOutsideRoots => 1
                          ); 
   $twig->set_pretty_print( "indented");
   $twig->parsefile( "web.xml");
   $twig->flush();

sub servletTag
{  
  my $LOCALE = "es_US"; 
  my( $twig, $servlet)= @_;   
  my $jspFileTag= $servlet->first_child("jsp-file");;
    
  if (defined($jspFileTag))
  {
    my $path = $jspFileTag->text();
    
    my $LOCALE_MOD = "/$LOCALE/";
    if ( $path =~ /$LOCALE_MOD/ )
    {
      $servlet->cut();
      return;
    }
  }  
 }
------------------ XML Input File ------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
          PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//
+EN"
          "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">

<!-- This is my comment -->

<web-app>
    <servlet>
    <servlet-name>Authenticate_en_US</servlet-name>
    <jsp-file>/vxml/en_US/type_0/entry/Authenticate.jsp</jsp-file>
    <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>

  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>Authenticate_es_US</servlet-name>
    <jsp-file>/vxml/es_US/type_0/entry/Authenticate.jsp</jsp-file>
    <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>

</web-app>
------------------ Program Output ------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>><!-- This is my comment --
+><web-app>




</web-app>
<web-app>
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>Authenticate_en_US</servlet-name>
    <jsp-file>/vxml/en_US/type_0/entry/Authenticate.jsp</jsp-file>
    <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>
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